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TUGboat 31:1, 2010

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Complete issue 31:1 as one pdf (5.3mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   1 
 
General Delivery
From the President 
  Karl Berry      [Introductory — conferences; interviews; TeX Collection 2010; TeX journals]
 3 
Editorial comments 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    TeX at 25;     Pi Day;     The  @ sign as a design icon;     Amusements on the Web;     Videos of typography talks on the Web;     Alphabet soup
 4 
An argument for learning LaTeX: The benefits of typesetting and beyond 
  Evan Wessler      [Introductory — benefits of LaTeX apart from aesthetics]
 6 
 
Publishing
A computer scientist self-publishing in the humanities 
  Nicolaas Mars      [Intermediate — notes on layout, creating new glyphs, and self-publishing with CreateSpace]
 9 
 
Typography
Strategies against widows 
  Paul Isambert 
 12 
Theses and other beautiful documents with classicthesis 
  André Miede      [Introductory — overview and examples of classicthesis]
 18 
Typographers' Inn 
  Peter Flynn      [Introductory — indenting; where have all the flowers gone?]
 21 
 
Fonts
Minimal setup for a (Cyrillic) TrueType font 
  Oleg Parashchenko      [Intermediate — concise step-by-step creation of support files for a new font]
 23 
LuaTeX: Microtypography for plain fonts 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate — font extension, slant, protrusion and expansion for LuaTeX]
 26 
Mathematical typefaces in TeX documents 
  Amit Raj Dhawan      [Introductory — examples of existing typefaces with math support, and plain macros]
 27 
 
Software & Tools
LuaTeX: Deeply nested notes 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — migrating nested footnotes and other insertions via Lua]
 32 
 
Graphics
The current state of the PSTricks project 
  Herbert Voß      [Intermediate — review of basic PSTricks, generation of PDF, a wealth of examples]
 36 
Plotting experimental data using pgfplots 
  Joseph Wright      [Intermediate Plus — creating good-looking and scientifically accurate plots]
 50 
From Logo to MetaPost 
  Mateusz Kmiecik      [Intermediate — comparison of graphics, both simple and complex, in Logo and MetaPost]
 59 
 
LaTeX
LaTeX news, issue 19 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Introductory — 2009 LaTeX release; new code repository; Babel; the future]
 64 
Talbot packages: An overview 
  Nicola Talbot      [Intermediate — date and time, glossaries, spreadsheet-like manipulation, poster layout, graphics drawing, and more]
 65 
Tuning LaTeX to one's own needs 
  Jacek Kmiecik      [Intermediate Plus — customizing page layout, section titles, headings, figure placement, and more]
 68 
Some misunderstood or unknown LaTeX2e tricks 
  Luca Merciadri      [Introductory — matrix with borders; accolades in tables; envelopes; microtypography]
 76 
LaTeX3 news, issue 3 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Introductory — xparse; xtemplate; upcoming plans]
 79 
Beyond \newcommand with xparse 
  Joseph Wright      [Intermediate Plus — LaTeX3's extended facilities for defining macros]
 80 
Programming key–value in expl3 
  Joseph Wright      [Intermediate Plus — a general key–value package for LaTeX3]
 83 
 
ConTeXt
ConTeXt basics for users: Conditional processing 
  Aditya Mahajan      [Intermediate — usage of ConTeXt modes, with several examples]
 88 
 
Hints & Tricks
Glisterings: Counting; changing the layout 
  Peter Wilson 
 90 
The exact placement of superscripts and subscripts 
  Timothy Hall      [Advanced — adjusting font dimensions to improve superscript/subscript appearance]
 94 
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages from July 2009 through April 2010]
 96 
 
Abstracts
ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 8 (October 2009)   99 
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2009/4–2010/2   100 
Asian Journal of TeX: Contents of Volume 3 (2009)   101 
Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issues 48–53 (2006–2009)   102 
Eutypon: Contents of issue 22–23 (October 2009)   104 
MAPS: Contents of issue 38 (2009)   105 
Baskerville: Contents of issue 10.2 (2009)   105 
Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 16(1), 19(3)–19(4) (2006, 2009)   106 
 
TUG Business
TUG financial statements for 2009 
  David Walden 
 109 
Institutional members   110 
 
News
Calendar   111 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   112 

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